Background

I started working out when I was about 12, but after 3 years of gaining close to nothing, I was sick of still being skinny.

I stumbled upon the Bodybuilding.com forums when I was looking for one of those arm routines that claim you grow 1" in 1 day. I started reading more and more on the forums, and started getting more serious.

My reading then started to branch out elsewhere, and before I knew it, I was reading anything and everything that I could find. I was still one of the smallest kids out there (weighing ~115lbs), but I knew exactly what I was going to do (diet and training wise). Right now, I've been training seriously for about 8 months, not including 3 that my upper body was injured and not worked at all. In those 8 (or 11) months, I've gone from 115 to 156lbs.

My bodyfat hasn't really increased at all, so it's almost all muscle. Of course you can call these "newbie gains", but I'm just getting started.

I've added 16lbs since January, and I'll be 180lbs by the end of 2005, under 10% bodyfat.

Articles

Too many people are worried that if they don't include his exercise, HST will fail for them. People seem to worry too much on what exercises they select, when really it's not that big of a deal as long as you're hitting all of the major muscle groups.

This article will teach you how to get the most out of the off-season through workouts and cardio with a 12-week program. Be warned though, because these programs are anything but easy. Read on to find out more and possibly try them out.

The importance of milk is not understood well enough by most people. Milk is my favorite snack/meal/supplement, and maybe after reading this article it will rank up there on your charts as well. Tolerant to lactose or not, YOU MUST DRINK MILK.

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